1. Publication 1980
2. This unmodified version dates from January, 2000

FUTURE SHOCK

I've been concerning myself since quite a long time with this healing therapy gaining an inconceivable high success rate. The importance of this therapy is the fact that sensational results are attained without administering any medicament.

The bombardment of the body with electromagnetic waves proved to be successful from the cure of sprained ankles to the zirrhosis of the Iiver. Scientists are now speculating on having found the key to control the increase of malignant cells. There is nothing new on electromedicine. Practioners of naturopathy have been applying instruments producing electromagnetic fields for decades to accelerate the cure of bruises and wrenches - lately even the recovery of wounds. But the Iatest applicabilities contain enormous promises for the future - not only concerning the treatment of local pain, but also the recuperation of the whole body. Might eleotromagnetism be the future of medicine?

Nobody knows about the beginning. The technology of driving a electromagnetical field at a part of the body in order to heal the tissue is still not esteemed by all medical disciplines. And yet the interest in utilization of static and dynamic electricity to heal desease and accelerate the return to health goes back to the last century, as electrodes had been put on bodies for experimental purposes, soft electric current flowing through them, electrode belts worn by patients suffering various indispositions. None of them had brought relief to a great extent and both of them had been given up soon. Then, in the year 1980, Nicola Pesla found the fact, that tissue bombarded by high-frequency alternating current, the wavelength of which a bit longer than the longest one of the long-wave band, would heal living tissue. Thereupon probable medical applicabilities had been concluded. In the year 1909, the German physicist K.F. Nagelschmidt originated the name "Diathermia", (what means about "complete supply with heat"), to describe this phenomenon. From then on this method had been utilised in any form by practioners of naturopathy and physiotherapists to ease deep pain inside muscles and joints, the parts to be treated put between two condenser-sheets linked by constant short-waves. This will cause a warming up of the tissue, stimulates the metabolism and blood circulation of the area to be treated, accelerates the eure of bruises, wrenches and other physical injuries.

But it can be risky. In the event of careless controlling of frequency and intensity of the waves, short-wave diathermia might not only warm up the tissue but also burn it, ergo destroying cells. The researcbers had been in a dilemma. Afterwards, in the fourties, discoverers applying the techniques observed not all die advantages of the treatment received by the patients could be put down to the thermal production quality of the diathermia. So, what happened? Was there another, a more useful kind of energy than the sort of passing over heat to the tissue by electromagnetic waves? Could electromagnetism itself be the most important healer? Some believed in it. An American doctor who studied the diathermia-treatment assumed that raising up the amperage would improve results. But he had to find a way to amplify the electromagnetic energy without blowing up the indicated heat. He framed an instrument which did not produce the constant electromagnetic waves of diathermia, but intermittent pulse waves.

Because there was a longer break between each wave, higher rates of oscillation could be applied without running the risk of burning the tissue. The electromagnetic pulse generator was born.

That happened about 40 years ago. These days this apparatus is utilised in hospitals, physiotherapeutic clinics and sport centres to treat tissue injuries, twisted shoulders and ankles, bruises, swollen joints and cuts by this treatment the time span of cure is reduced.

High-frequency pulse emitters vary in size and form, but the principle is the same - a cylindrical wave impulsor, closed on both ends, is put on the injured area. When tuned to maximum penetration, the device will emit energy outbreaks envading 15 cm into the body at best. The machine is tuned exactly in the required number of impulses or waves. Approximately 600 or 500 impulses or less than 80 can be sent out per second. Yet the gaps are about 15 times longer than the real emission; therefore the dangerous accumulation of heat inside of the tissue is prevented. Not as the former diathermia did. In contrast to the diathermia before, high-frequency pulse treatment, (usually between 30 and 60 minutes), can be administered through clouthes, bandages, metal implants and plaster casts. The treatment is good for patients of any age. The most remarcable fact of this method is that since the development in the fourties there was no report about damaging side effects and there is no contraindication concerning safety and efficacy. Just this matter of fact speaks for the uniqueness of this treatment.

Yet the applicabilities in the naturopathy of high-frequency pulse treatment, although well introduced, seem to be only a springboard for further applications since the interaction between electromagnetic energy and the living organism, a veiled secret for a long time, shows other outrageous advantages. Dr. Abraham Ginsberg, (USA), demonstrated that bursitis, (inflammation of the bursa), and calcification around swollen joints can be eliminated by this kind of therapy. Another study shows, that it can be used for fighting infections. The application of high-frequency pulse energy, together with rest and commen care in hospital, causes on patients suffering pyelitis, (inflammation of the renal pelvis), an improvement twice as quick than traditional nursing. Recently this method turned out usefully for aftercare of surgery on the back on small children. The healing of burns and growth of new skin are accelerated, at the same time the number of the leucocytes, hereby produced, is reduced. The probably most remarcable scientific research will be the study of David Wilson, General lnfirmary, Leeds. He showed through bis experiments the possibility of regeneration of injured peripher nerves on animals by high-frequency pulse energy. Their applicabilities for the treatment of foods are sizable indeed. All these discoveries proceeded from examined scientific studies. For each published study dozens being prepared in America and in Europe. Either I use high- frequency energy solely, or together with other methods, when it comes to fight chronic problems with respiratory, asthma, bronchitis, to pretreat or to give a follow-up treatment owing to cosmetic operations, to fight liver pains as hepatitis or zirrhosis and bone- and rheumatism/arthritis etc. I am convinced obout the possibility of curing sinusitis and prostata - when continually treated.

One of the very widely known English orthopedists said: "We use this therapy not only for accelerating the process of curing on sprained ankles and fractures, but also on the treatment of persistent chronic complaints". We do not only aim the high-frequency pulse waves at the spot to be treated such as the face, sinusitis existing, or at the wrist where the tissue is deformed by arthritis. Of course we do treat these spots, but we try treating the body as a whole too, stimulating organs mainly contributing to general curing and recovery, such as liver, adneral gland, spleen or thyroid gland. We also found that a treatment of a half an hour is not enough. lt ought to last one or one and a half hour to obtain better results. "How many times and how long time should be treated for bursitis, (inflammation of the bursa), for instance?" This depends on the specific condition and on the general condition of the patient. Usually some treatments are given per week, following a treatment every fortnight during a couple of months. lt is not possible to generalise - there might be around 10 to 40 sessions. The costs? - lt depends on the clinic and on the therapist, but usually they amount from 40.-- to 70.-- Swiss francs a session.

Electromagnetic pulse energy really being able to fullfill the task to cure what it is applied for, (clinically and in the field of research), the urgent question might be taking in consideration a further development, why it has got such a salutary effect under different conditions and what amount of potential could it be good for? This is a fascinating question, but for the time impossible to reply to. Firstly, since this sort of therapy causes a large number of reactions difficult to isolate and examine separately. Secondly, because the supposition physical functions on the cellular level are of electromagnetic origin had been despised as pure imagination of a small group of eccentric visionaries.

Deducing studies of the NASA, (National Aeronautic and Space Administration), and of other research centres, body cells are electrically charged in fact. Many scientists do believe now, that this electromagnetic energy, as a motor, is responsible for cellular structure and function. Though the normal load varies from cell to cell, scientists have shown by means of a micro pipette inserted in a single cell that a healthy cell shows 90 mV, whereas the load of a damaged or badly functioning cell shows much less. Many believe the biggest advantage of a high-frequency pulse therapy is the capability to complete a low cellular energy in order to recondition the natural qualities and functions, or to repolarise a injured celi in a strongly depolarised cell system.

The idea of cellular activity resting on electromagnetic vibration- energy had been ignored by established scientists for a long time, in spite of the fascinating publication of George Lokhovsky's book (The secret of life), and the book (A Bipolar Theory of Living Processes), written by W. Cribe. Cribe took on this matter from another point of view, yet deriving remarcable similar conclusions. Beeing streets ahead he wrote: "lt is evident cellular radiation producing electric current runs the organism as a whole, including following functions: memory, reason, imagination, feelings, special senses, secretions, muscle power, antibodies against infections, normal growth, growth of benign and malign tumours - all this is guided by electrical loads engendered in the protoplasm." This happened 1929. Next to 20 years later another scientist developped this theory on the mental, psychological and spiritual sphere of human iife. Ivan G. McDavid talked about biological wave-systems, vibrations and about natural cohesion of organs to execute their specific functions. All reports had one thing in common: the cell is an electromagnetic being.

Only 10 or 15 years ago science developped a refined apparatus for the study of transfers of electrons in the cell sphere in order to measure changes of cellular potential and ionic transfer throughout cellular membranes. The study of bio-electricity and their ionic movements inside and outside the cells is still a very new field of science. Yet scientists found already out that reducing of the potencial between the inside and the outside of a cellular membrane facilitates cellular division. The latest studies show a trans-membrane-potential of malign cells, what could be the reason for their speedy and uncontrollable proliferation in the body. Some scientists speculate upon controlling of the curing of acute and chronic oomplaints as on the growth of malign tissues by repolarization of partly depolarized cells. The well known Nobel Prize winner, Albert Szent Gyorggi, (discovery of vitamin C), was in the sixties of the opinion, that cells and tissues are semiconductors. This theory might be the most important unique draft for health and curing brought out in the second half of the century.

Upshot: Curing by electromagnetism has an exiting and very promising future.